Glove

ABSTRACT

A glove, for use in connection with athletic and casual wear for fixed attachment to a sleeve of an outer garment; the glove has a fastening tab , which protrudes from the material of the glove and is provided for placement between the “negative” and “positive” closure means of a sleeve width adjustment; with a closure device (positive or negative) on the sleeve that is predetermined by the outer garment , the underside of the tab has the corresponding closure device (negative or positive) and in accordance with a closure device (negative or positive) on the underside of the sleeve adjusting tab , the appropriately corresponding closure device (positive or negative) is embodied on the tab .

The invention relates to a glove, particularly for use in connection with athletic and casual wear, as well as a garment system with the glove.

BACKGROUND

DE 295 17 484 U1 has disclosed a long-sleeved garment with integrated hand protection; the garment has a sleeve extension for protecting the back of the hand, which extends out from the cuff and on the side oriented toward the back of the hand, has a grasping surface for fingers; the sleeve extension is provided with a thumb covering on the side.

DE 297 09 732 U1 has disclosed a waterproof one- or two-piece protective suit, particularly for motorcycle riders; the protective suit has waterproof gloves permanently attached to the sleeves and waterproof boot gaiters permanently attached to the trouser legs.

DE 299 06 194 U1 has disclosed a variable jacket in which gloves are fastened to the forearms between the outer material and the inner lining and stowed there and the gloves can be pulled on and pulled out by means of a zipper on the back of the hand.

DE 20 2004 012 642 U1 has disclosed a garment as well as a system for attaching garments in a sealed fashion; the garment, in particular a glove, footwear, or headwear, is composed of at least one layer of material; the at least one layer of material is composed of a sealing—, in particular fluid-tight functional layer and has an in particular tubular shaft with a receptacle; the receptacle can be coupled to an in particular tube-like connecting piece of another garment and the end of an attachment that is sealed against the entry of foreign matter into an interior; the receptacle is situated on an outside and an inside of the shaft and the receptacle is composed of a cuff extending along the shaft and gaiter that overlaps at least some regions of this cuff in the closed position; the cuff and the gaiter are made of a sealing—, in particular fluid-tight material and the cuff and/or gaiter is attached to the shaft 15 by means of at least one fastening element so that the functional layer is not perforated.

DE 20 2004 019 753 U1 has disclosed a garment with attached gloves; the garment is in particular a bodysuit, a full-body suit, an under-suit, a catsuit, or an overall, with gloves attached to the sleeves or with gloves permanently attached to the sleeves, which are connected to the arm piece by means of a seam or a fastener.

DE G 8207127.6 has disclosed an anorak, ski suit, jacket, or the like with gloves; the glove is fastened to the sleeve of the associated garment by means of a separable zipper; one half of the separable zipper is fastened to the open end of the glove and the other half of the separable zipper is fastened to the free end of the sleeve.

DE G 8426240.0 has disclosed a glove for windsurfers; this glove is embodied with a gaiter, which is connected to the part that covers the inner surfaces of the hand and to the part that covers the back of the hand, and the gaiter—at least for part of its length—is embodied in the form of a sleeve with a contour that is at least similar to a conic section.

DE 103 49 616 A1 has disclosed a garment with a sealing device and a method for producing same; the garment is embodied with a sealing device for sealing the garment in a fluid-tight fashion in relation to another garment; the garment has at least one fluid-permeable outer material layer, one fluid-permeable inner material layer, and a fluid-tight functional layer between the outer and inner material layers; in an overlap region, which the first garment forms with the second garment when the two garments are attached to each other in a sealed fashion, the sealing device encompasses an annular sealing element made of a fluid-tight material, which is attached to the functional layer in a fluid-tight fashion at a radially inner circumference; and on a radially outer circumference, the sealing element has at least one free sealing surface that is composed of an intrinsically closed circumference region and is free of the material of the outer material layer.

DE 196 01 561 C1 has disclosed a waterproof glove; the glove has a shaft and a gaiter tube and between the two, a sleeve-receiving channel is formed into which can be inserted a lower end region of a sleeve of a garment being worn by the user of the glove.

DE 10 2004 029 017 B4 has disclosed a combination garment that includes a long-sleeved outer garment; at least one sleeve of the outer garment has a lateral opening that is spaced apart from the end of the sleeve and a glove is fastened in captive fashion to the end of the sleeve; the glove has an inner cuff on which the fastening element is mounted and the sleeve has an inner cuff on which a fastening element is mounted.

Other gloves and/or jackets are described in the documents GB 203,220 A, GB 105,214 A, and US 24218481.

In the prior art as a whole, a multitude of attempts have already been made to attach the sleeves of clothing to gloves, particularly in a fluid-tight fashion; all of the above-mentioned proposals have in common the fact that they each require very special coupling means, particularly on the jacket, thus on the one hand hindering a quick and uncomplicated coupling and on the other, requiring the various garments to be especially designed for each other.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The object of the invention is to produce a glove, which can be coupled simply and quickly to outer garments, without the outer garments having to be especially designed for this purpose.

The object is attained with a glove having the features of claim 1.

Advantageous modifications are disclosed in the dependent claims.

Another object of the invention is to produce a garment system composed of an upper garment and the glove, which enables a simple coupling of the glove to the outer garment.

The object is attained with a garment system having the features of claim 7.

Advantageous modifications are disclosed in the dependent claims that depend on the independent claims.

The inventor has realized that for the usual applications such as skiing, snowboarding, or sailing, it is entirely sufficient if a glove is affixed to the outer garment so that the glove and outer garment are situated in overlapping fashion in at least a certain area.

According to the invention, it is not necessary for the outer garment to be especially designed for the glove; instead, the fastening is produced using existing means on outer garments, particularly those garments that are intended for athletic purposes.

Usually, athletic wear, particularly skiwear and snowboarding wear on the one hand, but also sailing wear on the other, in the forearm region in the vicinity of the wrist, is equipped with means for changing the sleeve width in this region, in particular for reducing its size. Usually, hook-and-loop fasteners or snap fasteners are used for this purpose.

In these hook-and-loop fasteners or snap fasteners, generally one closure partner is situated on a tab attached to the sleeve and one closure partner is situated on the sleeve itself so that depending on the position of the tab relative to its closure partner, the sleeve is tightened by forming a fold. With snap fasteners, these can thus be comprised of a plurality of snaps distributed around the circumference; with hook-and-loop fasteners, first hook-and-loop partners can be distributed at least partially around the circumference, while the second hook-and-loop partners can be embodied on the tab and in this case, can be embodied as relatively smaller in comparison to those on the sleeve.

According to the invention, a corresponding glove has a tab, which is provided on the outside of the glove and on one side, has a closure partner for the closure provided on the circumference of the sleeve and on the other side, has the closure partner for the closure provided on the tab of the sleeve.

In this way, the glove can be immobilized and fastened with its tab between the adjusting tab of the sleeve and the closure partner of the sleeve circumference. In this regard, according to the invention, it is only necessary to adapt a glove tab to the jacket type, which is significantly easier than to design both parts for each other.

In this connection, hook-and-loop fasteners and snap fasteners are merely examples. In entirely general terms, the invention is thus comprised of providing a tab on a glove, which can be placed between the “negative” and “positive” closure means of a sleeve width adjustment; with a predetermined closure device (positive or negative) on the sleeve, the underside of the tab has the corresponding closure device (negative or positive) and in accordance with a closure device (negative or positive) on the underside of the sleeve adjusting tab, has the appropriately corresponding closure device (positive or negative).

The tab on the glove in this case protrudes out axially relative to the longitudinal length of an arm or extends axially relative to the outer garment.

In the example of a hook-and-loop fastener, the sleeve has a fleece or velour band extending around it and the sleeve-adjusting tab has the corresponding hook band oriented toward the velour band.

The glove according to the invention correspondingly has a tab that has a hook band oriented toward the fleece or velour band of the sleeve and (on the top side) oriented toward the sleeve-adjusting tab, has a fleece or velour band or vice versa, depending on the arrangement.

Independent of the tab, a sleeve gaiter of the glove can preferably protrude into the sleeve of the upper garment in order to ensure the production of an overlap.

In the same way, the sleeve gaiter of the glove can also overlap over the open sleeve end; in this case, the sleeve closure has to be shifted largely upward away from the sleeve opening and the tab on the glove has to protrude (axially) beyond the glove opening in order to permit a fastening to occur.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The invention will be explained by way of example with reference to the drawings. In the drawings:

FIG. 1: is a schematic sectional depiction of a glove and a sleeve, with a fastening tab of the glove between the fastening means on a sleeve;

FIG. 2: shows the arrangement according to FIG. 1 in a perpendicular section along the line A-A in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3: shows the arrangement according to FIG. 1 in a section according to the line A-A in FIG. 1 with very schematically depicted snap fasteners and corresponding fastening means on the tab of the glove;

FIG. 4: is a schematic sectional depiction of a glove and a sleeve, with a fastening tab between the fastening means on a sleeve and a glove;

FIG. 5: is a top view of a glove;

FIG. 6: is a schematic second top view of the positioning of the tab of the glove on a sleeve.

FIG. 7: is a schematic side view of a glove and fastening tab;

FIG. 8: is a schematic view of an outer garment including a sleeve and fastening means;

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

A glove 1 according to the invention has a fastening tab 2, which is embodied so that it protrudes up from the material of the glove and in particular, is attached to the glove with a seam, a weld, or in some other way. The tab 2 has connecting means 3, 4, on opposing sides, which permit the tab 2 to correspond to corresponding connecting means 5, 6 of an outer garment 7. In particular, the tab 2 corresponds to a mechanism for tightening a sleeve section 8 of the outer garment 7.

To this end, the fastening means 5, 6 are situated on the forearm part 8 of the outer garment 7; the fastening means 6 is situated on a tab 9, which is fastened with one end 10 to the sleeve 8, while a free end 11 extends in the circumference direction of the sleeve 8.

The tab 2 of the glove 1 extends in an essentially axial direction relative to the sleeve so that when the glove is being worn, the tab 2 protrudes into the region between the fastening means 5 and 6 and the corresponding fastening means 3, 5 and 4, 6 can be attached to each other, thus affixing the glove with the tab 2 between the tab 9 and the fastening means 5 or the sleeve 8 on the outer garment.

The fastening means 5, 3; 4, 6 in this case can be corresponding hook-and-loop fastener components, i.e. a hook band and a fleece band, but a design with snaps (FIG. 3) is also conceivable; a snap part is embodied on the tab 2, which is embodied as an upper snap part (positive) oriented toward the sleeve 8 and is embodied as a lower snap part (negative) oriented toward the tab 9 and in this respect, differs from conventional snaps.

Naturally, zipper parts or halves are also conceivable in which corresponding zipper sections are provided on the respective tabs 2, 9 and on the sleeve 8.

The invention has the advantage that an already existing outer garment does not have to be especially designed for a glove; instead, the glove can be offered with a corresponding closure design on the tab 2 as an accessory to an existing outer garment.

If the tab 2 is embodied so that it can be detachably fastened to the glove, it is advantageous that with existing garments, the glove can be adapted even more easily and flexibly to the outer garment. In this connection, it is only necessary to produce and offer one basic glove type, which is then offered with the appropriate separate tab. The tab in this case can be positioned on the glove with an extra fastening means.

In this case, according to the invention, the tab 2 thus has corresponding closure means at both ends, one for the arm width adjustment and one for the glove width adjustment (FIG. 4). With a closure device (positive or negative) on the sleeve 5 predetermined by the outer garment 7, the underside of the tab 2 is correspondingly embodied for placement in this region, with a closure device 3 (negative or positive) and correspondingly, a closure device 6 (negative or positive) is embodied on the underside of the sleeve-adjusting tab 9 and the appropriate corresponding closure device 5 (positive or negative) is embodied on the tab 2. In addition, the tab 2 in this case—in order to be placed between the “negative” and “positive” closure means 14, 15 on the glove width adjustment—has a closure device 16 (positive or negative) on the underside of the tab, which corresponds to the closure device (negative or positive) on the glove 1. Correspondingly, the underside of the glove width adjusting tab has a closure device 15 (negative or positive) and the tab has a corresponding closure device 17 (positive or negative) on its top side.

The scope of the invention also includes separate closure tabs, which cooperate with a sleeve width adjustment on the one side and with the glove width adjustment on the other side.

In this case, the invention is not locally tied to either the glove or the outer garment, in other words, it does not have to be located in the region of the back of the hand or the top side of the wrist, but can be freely selected to be anywhere on the circumference. 

1. A glove, particularly for use in connection with athletic and casual wear for fixed attachment to a sleeve of an outer garment; the glove has a fastening tab, which is embodied so that it protrudes from the material of the glove and is provided for placement between the “negative” and “positive” closure means of a sleeve width adjustment; with a closure device (positive or negative) on the sleeve that is predetermined by the outer garment, the underside of the tab has the corresponding closure device (negative or positive) and in accordance with a closure device (negative or positive) on the underside of the sleeve adjusting tab, the appropriately corresponding closure device (positive or negative) is embodied on the tab.
 2. The glove according to claim 1, wherein the tab is permanently or detachably attached to the glove by means of a seam, a weld, a zipper, snaps, or a hook-and-loop fastener.
 3. The glove according to claim 1, wherein the tab has connecting means on opposing sides, with which the tab is embodied to correspond to the corresponding connecting means of the outer garment.
 4. The glove according to claim 1, wherein the tab and the connecting means correspond to a mechanism for tightening a sleeve section of the outer garment.
 5. The glove according to claim 1, wherein the tab of the glove, relative to the opening of the glove and the longitudinal span of the glove, extends in an essentially axial fashion so that the tab protrudes in the direction of the glove opening when the glove is being worn.
 6. The glove according to claim 1, wherein the connecting means or fastening means are corresponding hook-and-loop fastener components, i.e. a hook band and velour or fleece band, a lower snap part and upper snap part, hook-and-loop closure halves, and the like.
 7. A garment system composed of an upper garment and a glove for fixed attachment of the glove according to claim 1 to the sleeve of an outer garment, wherein the glove has a tab that has the connecting means with which the tab can be correspondingly attached to corresponding connecting means of an outer garment.
 8. The garment system according to claim 7, wherein the tab corresponds to a mechanism for tightening a sleeve section of the outer garment.
 9. The garment system according to claim 7, wherein the forearm part of the outer garment is provided with fastening means; the fastening means is provided on a tab, which is used to tighten a sleeve and which is fastened to one end of the sleeve while a free end extends in the circumference direction of the sleeve; the tab of the glove extends in an essentially axial direction relative to the sleeve so that when the glove is being worn, the tab protrudes into the region between the fastening means of the sleeve and the corresponding fastening means and the two can be connected to each other, thus permitting the glove to be affixed with the tab positioned between the tab and the fastening means, i.e. in the sleeve of the outer garment.
 10. The garment system according to claim 7, wherein the fastening means are corresponding hook-and-loop fastener components, i.e. hook belt and fleece belt or snaps or zipper parts or halves.
 11. A fastening tab for a garment system according to claim 7, wherein the tab is provided to be positioned between the “negative” and “positive” closure means of a sleeve width adjustment and a glove width adjustment; with a closure device (positive or negative) on the sleeve predetermined by the outer garment, the underside of the tab has the corresponding closure device (negative or positive) and corresponding to a closure device (negative or positive) on the underside of the sleeve width adjustment tab, the appropriately corresponding closure device (positive or negative) is embodied on the tab and the tab is also provided for placement between the “negative” and “positive” closure means of a glove width adjustment; and with a closure device (positive or negative) predetermined by the glove, the underside of the tab has the corresponding closure device (negative or positive) and corresponding to a closure device (negative or positive) on the underside of the glove width adjustment tab, the appropriately corresponding closure device (positive or negative) is embodied on the tab. 